Merry Christmas

We wish you all a wonderful Christmas, and warm time with your family and friends. We're enjoying damp Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. This island country is so varied: ancient ruins in the tropical jungles, tea plantations in hill country, roaming wild animals, and soon to be discovered by us...warm beaches.

Cheers to all for the Holdidaze....instead of the beach we are spending Christmas in the Hill Country were it's a bit cooler......Hope the best and we'll get back to this when we can....MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

We enjoyed Christmas eve last night with a lovely Sri Lankan meal of varied curried vegetables: jack fruit, pumpkin, greens with coconut and chilis, potatoes, pickles onions and peppers and of course some pompadums. A French couple we met opened a can of foi grasi they brought special from home and shared with us - we contributed a bottle of Australian wine. With a Christmas tree decorated in blinking lights and balloons, and Christmas country music playing over the radio, we swirled sparklers as the staff shot off bottle rockets. A very nontraditional but lovely evening.